Paleontology is truly a candle in the dark, to change Carl Sagan's words just a little. We stand together with few other sciences in the level of interest the public takes in our subject. Thus, paleontologists that practice one of the most difficult, yet seemingly easiest, of the sciences, could help people understand issues of significant consequences to them as well as the processes by which those consequences were evaluated. Paleontology can do this for us--we have a natural entrée into this problem, and we understand change through time in a way few others do. We are well positioned to develop creative ways through the mass media to deal with the public perception of the scientific process. This can only be beneficial, for everyone needs to know the fundamentals of critical thinking, evidential reasoning and judging authority in the modern world. And what field more easily brings each to the people than paleontology?